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      • Trusted Partner
      • Trusted Partner
        March 2009

        Nostalgia

        by Mircea Cărtărescu, Gerhardt Csejka

        Nostalgia, das geniale Prosadebüt von Mircea Cartarescu, erzählt von Kindheit und Jugend im Bukarest der sechziger und siebziger Jahre. Im Licht der Erinnerung, die aus den Empfindungen aller Sinne aufersteht, gewinnen die Schauplätze eine überwältigende Präsenz. Da ist das zerklüftete, morastige Gelände hinter dem Wohnblock am Stefan-cel-Mare Boulevard, wo der geheimnisvolle Knabe Mendebilus eine ganze Kinderbande mit somnambuler Akrobatik und tiefsinnigen Geschichten in Bann schlägt. Oder der glitschige unterirdische Tunnel, durch den Gina und Andrei ins Naturhistorische Museum geraten, wo sie ihre erste Liebesnacht erleben. Schließlich der bizarre, melancholische Turm am Stadtrand und seine riesenhaften Bewohner. Zu Recht hat der Spiegel Mircea Cartarescu einen „Proust des Plattenbaus“ genannt. Die unerhörte Intensität, mit der er die Dinge und Geschöpfe der äußeren Welt schildert, gibt ihnen die magische, mystische Aura zurück. Meisterhaft versteht er es, die aus dem Traum, dem Wahnsinn und der poetischen Ekstase geborenen Bilder auf die Bühne unserer vermeintlich festgefügten Wirklichkeit zu schieben.

      • Trusted Partner
        February 2006

        Der verliebte Gefangene

        Tropische Erzählungen

        by Cees Nooteboom, Helga Beuningen

        Im Juni 1957 heuert ein magerer Vierundzwanzigjähriger auf der Gran Río an. Von Amsterdam soll die Reise über Lissabon in die Tropen führen, nach Trinidad, Britisch-Guyana und Surinam. Im Reisegepäck des ungewöhnlichen Matrosen: Bücher, Notizhefte und die Neugier eines angehenden Schriftstellers, der gerade mit großem Erfolg Philip und die anderen veröffentlicht hat und entdecken wird, daß es in der Welt nicht immer so träumerisch zugeht wie in seinem Romanerstling.Cees Nootebooms erste große Reise hat ihren Niederschlag gefunden in den Tropischen Erzählungen, die auf niederländisch bereits 1958 veröffentlicht wurden und nun, ergänzt um eine spätere Erzählung, erstmals vollständig auf deutsch vorliegen. Das Gefühl der Fremdheit angesichts der anderen Matrosen, die unbekannten Laute und Düfte, der Reichtum der Natur, die Armut der Menschen – all diese Eindrücke hat Nooteboom einfließen lassen in Geschichten, die von Sonderlingen handeln, von verirrten Existenzen, seltsamen Begegnungen und grausamen Verfehlungen. Ob in den Tropen angesiedelt oder auf dem europäischen Kontinent, den Erzählungen eignet ein unergründlich somnambules, schwüles Moment, eine »tropische« Aura, die fasziniert und in Bann schlägt. Der verliebte Gefangene gibt Einblick in eine verwunschene und verschwundene Welt – und in die Anfänge eines vor beinahe fünfzig Jahren schon kraftvollen und reifen Erzählers. »Du wolltest doch Romantik«, sagte er, »dafür hast du bezahlt. All die Idioten, die von Zeit zu Zeit auf einem unserer dämlichen Frachtschiffe mitfahren, wollen Seemannsromantik. Aber die gibt es nicht.«

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        August 2016

        A Dream in Red Mansions

        by Cao Xue Qin

        "The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin's magnificent saga, "The Dreamer Awakes", was carefully edited and completed by Gao E some decades later. It continues the story of the changing fortunes of the Jia dynasty, focussing on Bao-yu, now married to Bao-chai, after the tragic death of his beloved Dai-yu. Against such worldly elements as death, financial ruin, marriage, decadence and corruption, his karmic journey unfolds. Like a sleepwalker through life, Bao-yu is finally awakened by a vision, which reveals to him that life itself is merely a dream, 'as moonlight mirrored in the water'.

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        Children's & YA

        REVES DE SUGIRA

        by Fiston Mudacumura

        Sugira est une fille de 7 ans qui vit avec sa mère, Kamaliza. Elle n'aime pas se brosser lesdents. Un jour, elle va à l'école. Ses camarades de classe s'ennuient et l'intimident pour sonodeur. Elle s'est évanouie. Ses deux amies du même quartier commencent également à fuir.Kamaliza, sa mère ne cesse de lui rappeler de se brosser les dents après avoir mangé mais elle n'aime pas ça. Une nuit, elle dort. Dans ses rêves, elle se retrouve dans le royaume de la cavité buccale des microbes surnommé «Imitananana». Il existe de bons microbes quiprotègent les dents et servent la protection de l'hygiène buccale en général. Les bonsmicrobes ont leur chef, le roi AAA. Sugira reçoit un accueil chaleureux dans sa propre cavité buccale. Bonnes Imitananapréparent une soirée pour elle dans les célébrations de la danse africaine et Rwandaise.Ce monde de «Imitanana» est un monde comme les autres. Nous avons des concours debeauté, du travail communautaire, des concerts et bien d'autres jeux amusants et familiersavec les enfants. Sugira apprend à protéger et à préserver l'hygiène bucco-dentaire via des batailles menéescontre les mauvais microbes imitanana menées par le méchant appelé Zezeze.

      • Children's & YA
        2021

        The Sleeping Girl

        by Camille Floue and Vincent Pianina

        Toddlers will have fun turning this book in every direction as they follow a little sleepwalker who falls out of bed, rolls outside of her bedroom and starts a nonsensical and fast-paced journey, stumbling, bouncing, and drifting along the water before returning on eagle-back, all with her eyes wide shut, then back to her bed… where she wakes up peacefully from a refreshing sleep!

      • Humour
        July 2009

        Vicar Joe's Religious Joke Book

        by Johns, Kevin

        "Your husband walked out in the middle of my sermon last Sunday, Mrs Jones." "It was nothing personal, Vicar, he was just sleepwalking." Vicar Joe is the football-mad alter ego of Swansea's all-round entertainer, Kevin Johns. Following the successful pla

      • Fiction
        September 2022

        CALLED TO THE DEEP

        by Desiree Niccoli

        When Killian Quinn, captain of offshore fishing boat Dawn Chaser, receives a distress call from a sailing ship caught in a terrible storm, he and his crew rush to provide aid. But when they arrive, all that’s left of the ship and its crew is splintered wood and a borderline hypothermic woman who can’t remember how she survived. His attraction to her is instant, and maintaining a professional distance proves to be a struggle, especially when she needs a place to stay that’s far from the press and curious townsfolk, and his idyllic cottage by the sea is the perfect sanctuary. What was supposed to be a thrilling once-in-a lifetime opportunity for Lorelei Roth—who’d never been to sea—turns into a seafaring tragedy. As Lorelei struggles to accept that she is The Flying Duchess’s only survivor, she is plagued by strange dreams and sleepwalking episodes that draw her into the ocean. And if the grieving process wasn’t hard enough, Lorelei also grapples with guilt from developing feelings for the captain who rescued her. But worst of all, is a new, unsettling hunger for raw flesh that’s eating her from the inside out. The handsome fishing boat captain begins to look like a tasty snack in more ways than one.

      • December 2023

        Heavy Oceans

        by Tyler Jones

        From Tyler Jones, author of MIDAS and BURN THE PLANS, one of Esquire’s Best Horror Books of 2022, comes a story of deep sea terror and cosmic horror.Struggling with the pressures of being a new father and the weight of regrets, Jamie Fletcher travels to Hawaii in hopes of connecting with his estranged brother, Eric.After a shocking act of violence, the brothers end up on a fishing boat--along with the captain and his son--in the middle of the ocean, where they encounter an uncanny and terrifying phenomenon that will signal a shift in the evolution of the world.

      • Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes

        Sleepwalker

        by Jillian. Powell

      • Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

        Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a SleepWalker

        by Charles Brockden Brown (author)

        Often described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820.This volume contains a critical edition of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, the third of his novels to be published in 1799 and the first to deal with the American wilderness. The basis of the text is the first edition, printed and published by Hugh Maxwell in Philadelphia late in the year, but the “Fragment” printed independently in Brown’s Monthly Magazine earlier in 1799 supplies some readings in Chapters 17-20. The Historical Essay, which follows the text, covers matters of composition, publication, historical background, and literary evaluation, and the Textual Essay discusses the transmission of the text, choice of copy-text, and editorial policy. A general textual statement for the entire edition appears in Volume I of the series.

      • Science fiction

        Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens

        by Jonathan Pinnock

        A year or two into her marriage, Elizabeth Darcy has much on her mind: she has still not produced an heir to Mr Darcy, there are preparations to be made for the Pemberly summer ball and her youngest sister, Lydia, has been abducted by aliens. As Regency England sleepwalks toward tentacled oblivion, will she be able to reunite with her old foe Wickham and put a stop to their evil plans? Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens is probably the most unconventional sequel to a Jane Austen novel ever written and is certainly the funniest.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2019

        Close Your Eyes, Iris!

        Why do you have to go to sleep, even if you’re not a bit tired? How do you know you’re sleepy? And what’s the sleepy monster?

        by Virpi Kaarina Talvitie et al.

        Iris is cross. She’s in the middle of a game, and her mother, tired out by the baby, is angrily telling her to go to bed. Why are grown-ups allowed to stay up later? Why do you have to go to bed if you’re not tired? And why doesn’t sleep come anyway? Who on earth is the Sandman?   Her dreams take Iris with them into the forest, to a farm, under the water and finally to the mountains. At that point the dream becomes a little frightening when Iris meets a sleepy monster suffering from insomnia! Fortunately, when Iris wakes up in the morning everything is back to normal. Even her mother is more cheerful.   Close your Eyes, Iris! is a book about the fascinating and still largely unknown world of sleep. Many exciting aspects of sleep receive a child-level explanation which will also interest adult readers: how do fish sleep? And what about jellyfish, which don’t have brains or eyes? How can bears sleep all winter? How do sleep and sleeplessness affect the human brain, nervous system and cells? Why is it sometimes really difficult to wake up?

      • Travel writing

        Passport to Enclavia

        Travels in Search of a European Identity

        by Vitali Vitaliev

        What does it mean to be European? The answer lies in Europe's forgotten enclaves - tiny fragments of one country cut off and completely surrounded by another, stuck between two different cultures, currencies and sometimes even languages. Vitali explores the idiosyncrasies of these enclaves, just as a uniform European identity - the Euro - was being imposed by Brussels. An acclaimed investigative journalist, Vitali was able to uncover the roots of the current EU crisis ten years ago, just when the Euro was being introduced. This makes his book extremely topical and surprisingly up-to-date.

      • Fantasy

        Sleeping Sapphire

        by T J Gristwood

        Sleeping Sapphire is a fantasy story for adult women.  Sapphire Whittaker is no ordinary thirty something woman.  For a start her dreams have started to become reality.  Meeting the mysterious "Fox" has turned her world upside down, a world suddenly full of magic, passion, dance, drugs and danger. After moving to a new life in the countryside, she begins to realise that even the local village is not what it seems: everyone is up for a party and her name is on the door to enter a Wonderland she never knew existed.  Sapphire begins to discover that whilst sleeping and dreaming she is able to travel to new dimensions and worlds.  This magical ability to "dream travel" also becomes possible when she blows caution to the wind and tries a new kind of drug she has never experienced before.  Sapphire is changing in ways she never thought were even possible, reality and fantasy becoming a crazy mix of adventure, madness, and mayhem.  Enter her world and open your mind to the endless possibilities of dreaming.  Sleep will never seem the same again!

      • Colonialism & imperialism
        December 2019

        Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology

        by Rohan B. E. PRICE

        Are there ethics justifying anti-colonial violence? How and why did the violence and visions of nationalist movements become incorporated by colonial and neo-colonial rule? Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948–1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya by forcing its colonial administration to invent Malay nationalism and pursue ameliorative social policy among the Chinese diaspora community in a manner clearly derived from the Party’s platform. Yet this was not the same as giving the country economic emancipation from the expectations of neo-colonial rule. Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology entertains no warm colonial memories of the cold war years. Confirming Price’s reputation as a plain speaking critic of Empire apologia, this book asks how colonial ideology was considered to be beneath Europe yet desperately needed by it. He faces down nostalgic communities defending an outdated view that “might was right” in South East Asia and that communism failed to contribute to the world that came to be. Using an Althusserian assumption, the book begs the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this? “… A major contribution to the literature.” – Prof Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London “… [an] unparalleled command of both scholarly literature and primary sources…” – Prof Björn Ahl, Professor and Chair of Chinese Legal Culture at the University of Cologne

      • March 2020

        Embaixador

        by Marcus John Beltran

        With everything lost, a young man's desperate cry is heard who questions life itself. Unknown to him, the answer arrives as a strange foreign traveler crosses his path. With the young man set firm on ending it all, he begins an unstoppable wild free-for-all; professing to the traveler he wants to experience it all before his death. All the while his new traveler friend remains by his side throughout his spiraling downfall. As another mysterious person enters the scene, the young man is now pulled in two different directions. A friendship grows opening up a whole new world as he discovers the truths that have surrounded us from the beginning!

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